Anaïs Nin : a sea of lies
Edition
First edition.
Languages
Text in English, translated from French.
Publication Information
Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, Inc., 2023.
Physical Description
184 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
"Anaïs Nin is the patron saint of sexual iconoclasts: she was a prolific diarist, novelist, essayist, and one of the most famous and bestselling authors of literary erotica (Delta of Venus; Little Birds). For nearly a century, she's been inspiring taboo-breaking artists like Madonna--and Léonie Bischoff, whose mesmerizing graphic biography, Anaïs Nin: A Sea of Lies, won an international prize. In 1930s Paris, Anaïs Nin wants nothing more than to write but is frustrated by her inability to "express the inexpressible." She meets the young American writer Henry Miller--and her passions are inflamed by his wife, June. She proceeds to have torrid affairs with Henry and others--erotic experiences brought to vivid, transcendent life through Bischoff's sensual color lines--and discovers that her sexual liberation also frees her as an author. Nin lived her life like a work of art and created art from her life. Léonie Bischoff brings it full circle by illuminating Nin's inner complexity in this uncompromising work of art."--
Subjects
- Erotic literature writers > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Women authors, American > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Interpersonal relations > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Diaries > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Diaries in literature > Comic books, strips, etc.
- France > History > 20th century > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977 > Comic books, strips, etc.